Question about Social Security Number Field

Raissa Smorol
Raissa Smorol
Fourth Anniversary
in Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT®: General Discussions
Hello,

Does anyone know if social security number is a string field or numbers only?


Thank you,

Raissa

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  • Stacy Evans
    Stacy Evans
    Sixth Anniversary Kudos 2 Name Dropper Participant
    Unless something has changed, it's numbers only.
  • Stacy Evans
    Stacy Evans
    Sixth Anniversary Kudos 2 Name Dropper Participant
    Are you talking about RE or Financial Edge?
  • Alan French
    Alan French
    Tenth Anniversary Kudos 5 Name Dropper Participant
    It's a string, at least in my database (although here in the UK our equivalent to SSNs are alpha-numeric, so it's possible that could be different between the UK and US versions?)


    One way to find out would be to try adding one with letters and see if it'll let you save the record.
  • Rob Wild
    Rob Wild
    Tenth Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Participant
    Australian version here - we use this field for our Uni's identity management ID, which is alpha-numeric, so string field.

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